aicrawlerguard.com

<p>AI Crawler Guard detects popular AI-focused crawlers and lets you block or allow them from scraping your WordPress site. Everything runs locally—rules, decisions, logs, and history stay on your server.</p>
<ul>
<li>Built-in signatures for common AI bots, plus optional custom patterns</li>
<li>Global and per-crawler allow/block controls</li>
<li>Local crawler registry with first/last seen timestamps and hit counters</li>
<li>Lightweight logs with optional retention cap</li>
<li>No external calls or remote storage</li>
</ul>
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 5.8 or newer</li>
<li>PHP 7.4+</li>
<li>Works with Classic Editor, Gutenberg, WooCommerce, and major managed hosts</li>
<li>Respects wp-admin, wp-login, REST API, cron, and CLI contexts automatically</li>
</ul>
<h3>Performance</h3>
<ul>
<li>Detection runs once per front-end request (small O(n) UA scan)</li>
<li>No blocking of social preview bots (Facebook, Meta, Twitter, LinkedIn) by default</li>
<li>Assets load only on plugin admin pages and stay under 10 KB</li>
<li>Logs stay capped by your configured limit with auto-pruning</li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy</h3>
<p>All detection logic and data storage live entirely inside WordPress. No data is sent to third-party services in v1.</p>


AI Crawler Guard

Detect and control AI crawler access with local logging and history.

mareinterno

<p><strong>EdgeShaping Lite</strong> is a WordPress implementation of the EdgeShaping AI bot observation framework developed by <a href="https://mareinterno.com" rel="nofollow ugc">mare interno</a>.</p>
<p>This plugin answers one question:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>Which AI bots are reading which pages of your site, and when?</strong></p>
</blockquote>
<h4>What it does</h4>
<ul>
<li>Detects AI bot visits using a dictionary of known AI crawlers</li>
<li>Records bot name, visited URL, and timestamp</li>
<li>Dashboard with bot visit frequency ranking and most AI-visited pages</li>
<li>Full access log with date filter and CSV export</li>
<li>AHQG Matrix — visualizes AI bot visits vs. human search clicks (requires Google Search Console integration)</li>
</ul>
<h4>What it does NOT do</h4>
<ul>
<li>It does not block AI bots</li>
<li>It does not modify your content</li>
<li>It does not send data externally — all data stays in your WordPress database</li>
</ul>
<h4>Note on CDN environments</h4>
<p>This plugin observes AI bot traffic at the PHP layer. In environments with a CDN (e.g. Cloudflare, CloudFront), cached requests may not reach PHP and will not be recorded. For full CDN-layer observation, see <a href="https://edgeshap.ing" rel="nofollow ugc">edgeshap.ing</a>.</p>
<h4>EdgeShaping Framework</h4>
<p>EdgeShaping is a framework for observing AI bot behavior to understand how AI systems read and interpret your content. For more information, visit <a href="https://mare-interno.com" rel="nofollow ugc">mare-interno.com</a>.</p>
<h3>External Services</h3>
<p>This plugin connects to the following external services:</p>
<h4>Google Search Console API</h4>
<p>This plugin optionally connects to the Google Search Console API to retrieve human search click data for use in the AHQG Matrix feature.</p>
<ul>
<li>What it is used for: Retrieving search analytics data (clicks per page) to compare with AI bot traffic.</li>
<li>What data is sent: The plugin sends OAuth 2.0 authentication requests and search analytics queries to Google’s API. No personal user data from your site visitors is transmitted.</li>
<li>When it is used: Only when the administrator manually connects their Google Search Console account via the plugin settings screen.</li>
<li>Service provider: Google LLC</li>
<li>Terms of Service: https://developers.google.com/terms</li>
<li>Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy</li>
</ul>


EdgeShaping Lite

Observe which AI bots visit which pages and when. WordPress implementation of the EdgeShaping framework.

AI Crawler Guard vs EdgeShaping Lite